WINSTON Churchill famously said that the outside of a horse is good for the inside of a man, and owner Pádraig Clancy can attest to that.

When his family’s six-year-old mare Unquite Dreams got off the mark with a display of real courage in a Killarney mares’ bumper last month, it was the culmination of major patience paying off, and a welcome reason to smile after a most challenging year.